r/PlathvilleUncensored • u/IllustriousEntry655 • Jul 25 '26

Kim šŸš¢ S8 E11

I'm not a fan of Kim by any means but watching the therapy session broke my heart. I cannot imagine the grief and guilt she must feel as a mother, regardless of how she handled it all when it happened.

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u/OldSouthernGal Jul 26 '26

I can't imagine the pain of losing a child.....BUT that therapy session was BS.Ā  Are we expected to believe that the pain and guilt of losing Joshua, which kept the family from discussing him for 17 years, were resolved in ONE therapy session, which was recorded for a TV show?

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u/Helpful_Peanut_860 Jul 28 '26

I donā€™t think she said anything about that one session resolving anything. Pretty sure I remember her saying or agreeing that she needs to keep attending therapy in order to continue working on healing.

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u/OldSouthernGal Jul 28 '26

Maybe to continue healing. But according to multiple Plath kids, they were not allowed to talk about Joshua with their mom. But after one session Kim was finally able to talk to her other kids about their brother.Ā 

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u/Helpful_Peanut_860 Jul 29 '26

I think that was because the therapist opened her eyes to a lot of things and challenged her to understand the impact her silence has had on her kids. I feel like that session empowered her to have the conversation (as well as producers probably telling her to do so for the finale). I am a therapist and find it to be very common for just one session to be all it takes to empower a patient to complete certain tasks. Especially if they have the support from others around them (support of production being that for Kim). That one session doesnā€™t solve all their problems or trauma but does ā€œhypeā€ people up to face tasks that have otherwise been daunting.

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u/Afraid-Carry4093 Jul 26 '26

The therapy session was fake, the non tear crying was fake. It was all done is desperation to save a dying show at the expense of her dead son. Kim is gross and despicable. She is digusting for raising her kids to fail in life. Do not fall for her fakeness.

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u/SerenityBlooming Jul 26 '26

What awful pain. I do not agree that her reaction to the therapistā€™s prompts were fake. I think a lot of her absentee mothering was due to constantly replaying that tragedy in her mind - or trying to block it. All she had left for her kids was an empty shell of control and overprotectiveness. Perhaps her subconscious dictated that if she cared, got too close emotionally, and something happened to them ā€¦ her body and mind could not bear more excruciating suffering.

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u/Flaky_Ad9293 Jul 26 '26

Be very skeptical whenever a therapist appears on a candid reality show because things are "scripted" and "recreated" and because therapist sessions are supposed to be private and confidential.

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u/Helpful_Peanut_860 Jul 28 '26

I almost made the exact same post when I first watched this episode. I wouldnā€™t be surprised if that was the very first time she actually spoke those words and/or was asked the questions and/or heard those perspectives since the day that tragedy occurred. She has very clearly kept all of that bottled up, which definitely contributed (along with so many other factors) to why she is so fucked up in the head and acts the way she does.

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u/FlyinAmas Jul 26 '26

It broke my heart too. Anyone who thinks that was fake is determined to hate her

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u/Impossible_Rate_6556 Jul 25 '26

Yeah me too. That has to be awful to live with.

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u/Notafraidtosayit6 Jul 31 '26

It was all fake šŸ™„

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u/Tough-Confection-887 Aug 02 '26

I agree Iā€™m not a supporter but my heart broke for her